the darkness

The pages that were thrown in the fire. The lives that were ruined by the breath of flames that were spit. The nights that had been overshadowed by the regrets of the past.
The monsters under the bed and the creeps that lurk in the shadows. The fallen stars that light the paths of a stray traveler. The night that covers me that in a cocoon of safety.
I think of all the times, the darkness has been there to save me.

I'm no longer afraid of what lurks in the shadows, for it's the shadows that give me hope that there is light. It's the darkness that shows me what truly resides. It's the darkness which holds me close when I cry. It's the darkness that has been awakened, inside.

Light changes its ways and how it dances around you. The darkness always remains the same, no matter where you go.

The darkness shows me fantasies of everyone that I see. All that they try to hide, but they never do succeed. The lies they speak, the things they hide, the darkness shows them all to me, in a place without light.

My heart was broken long ago, but the darkness cured it and rid it of pain and ended the misery. I broke free of the world and redeemed a fantasy that could never be, but then it came to be.
I used to scream and cry. I used to die in a new way, every night.

The shadows crept into me. They breathed life into me, and created me from the depths of my broken soul and heart. I was reborn from the shadows that hide within one's soul. I was brought back to the world of the living with a cured soul.

Suddenly I'm able to see, all that which had been hidden by the lights of the world. Suddenly I'm able to see, all that they hide in their souls. I'm able to see, all the loves that broke their hearts. I'm able to see everything they've spent their life hiding inside themselves.

The dark taught me that no matter if someone hated me, or even loved me, they should all fear me.

Hate me all they want but I would never matter what they think for they fear of what I do, or can do.

The darkness has taught me much. It has made me into a stronger person than I was. I am grateful to it, and I'm in no need to ever being alone in it, for the darkness lives in us all, but only a few are ever able to harness that power.